“Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.”
“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”
“An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown”
“It's been said that the role of the artist is to teach us to see and that's true. However, the role of other artists is to teach me how they see. To learn how I see is somethig that cannot be taught but must be learned.”
“Learn to live. Live to write. Write to love. Love to learn.”
“It seems as if no man had ever died in America before, for in order to die you must first have lived. These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live.”